In doing so, we are following a process known as prefigurative politics - or as Obama supporters might say, we are seeking to "be the change" that we envision for the world. From Wordnik.com. [rabble.ca - News for the rest of us] Reference
In other words, if such concepts were practiced by businesses or housing co-ops or communes, I think this is effective in the sense that individuals are creating the social relationships they want to see in the new world, one example of many what might be called prefigurative politics. From Wordnik.com. [Anarkismo.net] Reference
For revolutionary syndicalists, the development of a mass workers movement where the organizations and struggles are "self-managed" by the workers themselves is "prefigurative" of a society self-managed by the working class. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchist news dot org - Comments] Reference
She, that would not suffer at his birth even a prefigurative or mimic degradation for her awful ward, far less could be supposed to suffer the real degradation attaching to the non-development of his powers. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845] Reference
The ideas of prefigurative politics are interesting. From Wordnik.com. [Sydney Indymedia - Comments] Reference
I think this leads him to misunderstand "prefigurative politics.". From Wordnik.com. [Anarchist news dot org - Comments] Reference
At that time Mithridates is said to have had a dream prefigurative of what was to befall him. From Wordnik.com. [The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls] Reference
To get a sense of what Gill and Holloway mean by prefigurative politics, I'll quote Holloway himself. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends] Reference
In this way a prefigurative political struggle is fundamentally different than that of traditional marxism. From Wordnik.com. [Sydney Indymedia - Comments] Reference
These and other benefits make the implimenation of prefigurative politics in struggle for change a valuable tactic. From Wordnik.com. [Sydney Indymedia - Comments] Reference
Beneath the political stratosphere, the tiniest details of social life and media preoccupations seem oddly prefigurative. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
The question is, how do we find other tactics like 'prefigurative politics' which continue us down the path of revolution. From Wordnik.com. [Sydney Indymedia - Comments] Reference
GILL EXPLAINS that he came to prefigurative politics through John Holloway, author of Change the World Without Taking Power. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends] Reference
Vale, Tess was steeped in fancies and prefigurative superstitions; she thought this an ill omen -- the first she had noticed that day. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
In reality Marxism and anarchism should be like two hands, the one analyzing the structure of things, the other throwing up unending prefigurative initiatives. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends] Reference
Like all the cottagers in Blackmoor Vale, Tess was steeped in fancies and prefigurative superstitions; she thought this an ill omen -- the first she had noticed that day. From Wordnik.com. [Tess of the d'Urbervilles] Reference
I will describe them as differing on the issues of revolution or reformism, of democracy, of what "prefigurative politics" mean, and of attitudes toward the working class. From Wordnik.com. [Anarkismo.net] Reference
Humbling himself, as the bearer merely of a prefigurative baptism, he pointed to the mightier One who should baptize with the Spirit, who already stood, unrecognized, in their midst. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Jesus Christ in Its Historical Connexion and Historical Developement.] Reference
Elsewhere in the 'periphery', too, populations most gravely damaged by the depredations of ecological and economic imperialism are resisting and also developing prefigurative alternatives. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
We stand behind a radical prefigurative politics - that is, that we must strive to put our ideals into practice in our own lives as we participate in struggles toward a society free of oppressive systems. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchist news dot org - Comments] Reference
She that would not suffer at his birth even a prefigurative or mimic degradation for her awful ward, far less could be supposed to suffer the real degradation attaching to the non-development of his powers. From Wordnik.com. [Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11] Reference
It refers to a popular power that is seized directly from below, and so it captures a bit of the prefigurative element of the anarchist legacy, the creating of another world in the here and now of everyday practices. From Wordnik.com. [MRZine.org] Reference
For others, this sort of self-sacrifice seems profoundly counter-revolutionary-whether from a prefigurative and ludic sense of revolution as unbounded pleasure, or from a more labor-oriented perspective that insists on the dignity of work ( "Don't you know that people died for the eight-hour workday?"). From Wordnik.com. [Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends] Reference
AT THE Left Forum in New York City in April, anarchist Harjit Singh Gill spoke on a panel on prefigurative politics. From Wordnik.com. [Anarchist news dot org - News for anarchists and their friends] Reference
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